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Type 1 diabetes Usually develops during childhood or adolescence and is caused by a severe deficiency of insulin, leading to high blood glucose levels.
type 2 dibetes Develops especially in adults and most often obese individuals. It is caused by high blood glucose resulting from impaired insulin use coupled with the body’s inability to compensate with increased insulin production.
Positive Feedback Tends to magnify a process or increase its output.
Negative Feedback Primary mechanism of homeostasis. For instance, change in a variable that is being monitored triggers a response that counteracts the initial fluctuation.
Insulin A protein hormone secreted by the pancreas that is essential for the metabolism of carbohydrates and the regulation of glucose levels in the blood.
Hormone Living cells that circulate in blood and produces usually a stimulatory, effect on the activity of cells.
Homeostasis Maintaining relatively stable internal physiological conditions.
Glucose Tolerance Test A test of the body’s ability to metabolize glucose that involves the administration of a measured dose of glucose to the fasting stomach and the determination of blood glucose levels in the blood or urine at intervals thereafter and that is used especially to detect diabetes.
Glucagon A protein hormone secreted by pancreatic endocrine cells that raises blood glucose levels; an antagonistic hormone to insulin.
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